Chapter 809



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Nora was too sleepy so she kept yawning over and over again.

She looked at Philip and asked him slowly, “What do you want to talk about?”.

Her voice was a little hoarse and conveyed a bit of impatience from having just woken up.

Philip: “?”

His eyebrows drew together tightly.

Jason said, “The one we want to talk to is Big Sister. Miss Smith, you…”

But before he could finish, something suddenly occurred to him and he looked at Nora in disbelief. Then, she turned to Philip. “Chief…”

Philip looked down and his lips suddenly curved into a smile.

“I see, Miss Smith is none other than the Big Sister of the Quinn School of Martial Arts! No offense, but do you really want to interfere in matters between Iris and me?”

Her voice was clear and she spoke in an exceptionally relaxed manner. “There are some misunderstandings between Iris and I, so we’re in the middle of a bit of a couple’s argument at the moment. Considering how deeply in love Miss Smith and Justin were, you should understand, right? You wouldn’t want to break up a couple in love, would you?”.

Nora looked at Philip and said, “Women have become independent these days. Whether she wants to continue her relationship with you or not, and whether she wants to leave with you or not, is for my her to decide…. Aunt Iris.”

Philip: “?”

Nora raised her eyebrows again. “Let her go and I’ll let you all leave safely. Otherwise, Mr. Coleman, you’d better stay here for the New Year’s Eve countdown.”

Philip frowned hugely.

Beside him, Jason said, “Chief, we can let her go right now. We’ll figure out a way to take her back in the future.”

Philip took a deep breath and looked at Iris.

He had thought that with the capabilities of the Smiths and the Hunts, they wouldn’t be able to keep him here in the States.

He had never imagined that the Quinn School of Martial Arts and the clandestine forces in New York would also become involved. If he faced them head-on, his hundred or so men would surely die.

Philip was a man who knew how to retreat when he had to.

However, if he had to let Iris go just like that? He didn’t want to!

Off to the side, the three boys stood on tiptoe as they watched the spectacle. Xander asked, “Will you let Grandma go?”.

Cherry replied, “Sure that fierce grandpa will!”.

Pete nodded. “Yeah, he won’t hurt Grandma.”

However, Cherry said, “That’s not necessarily true. But since Mom’s here, there definitely won’t be any trouble!”

Pete and Xander: “…”

The three of them chatted happily. At that moment, a foreign mercenary not far from them suddenly rushed towards them! He stood right in front of the three children, looked at Nora and threatened, “Let us go! Or else I’ll kill your children!”.

Nora: “?”

They all raised their eyebrows and looked at Philip reproachfully.

Iris shouted, “No!”

She looked at Philip and said angrily, “Philip, is this the moral boundary you claimed to have? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t do anything to the children?”

Philip hadn’t expected this turn of events either. He clenched his fists and sneered, “Do you think I ordered her to do that?”.

Iris let out a cold laugh. She wanted to say something, but the mercenary next to her had already spoken again.

“Mr. Coleman, this is the only way we can leave safely. Even if you let that lady go, this group of people is still free to do whatever they want with us.”

Even if they delivered Iris, it was still entirely up to Nora whether she wanted to let them go or not.

Philip hated it the most when things got out of his control. Truth be told, the best solution right now was to threaten them into letting them go with Iris’s safety, but Philip couldn’t bring himself to do that.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the three children blocked by the man. He had thought the children would be very frightened and nervous, but unexpectedly, all three were very calm.

In particular, Cherry even pointed to herself and then spoke to Pete and Xander and said, “I think he can kidnap me! I’m a girl, so I’m the weakest among us!”

Philip looked down. For some reason, although Cherry looked a little like Nora, he saw instead a semblance of Iris in Cherry’s face.

Even the look in her eyes had softened a bit.

The tense atmosphere had calmed considerably.

Philip let out a breath of air and said slowly, “What…”

But before he could say the words ‘let the three of them go’, the mercenary reached out to grab Cherry’s hand.

Philip’s eyebrows drew together.

Iris also stepped forward and shouted, “Let Cherry go!”.

Everyone wanted to snatch the little girl away. Nora was the only one who remained where she was, calm and motionless. The next moment, the man who was about to grab Cherry suddenly screamed. Suddenly, he withdrew the arm he had stretched out toward Cherry and stepped back two paces.

His arm was stretched out and had a few needles stuck in it.

In addition, a dagger had been stuck in it. His arm was dripping blood, making an unbearable sight.

Pete had stabbed him with the dagger.

After practicing martial arts with Quinn for some time, he had already acquired some skills.

Justin had custom made the dagger for him after he and Xander were kidnapped, and it was exceptionally tough.

Xander was the one who had poked the man with needles.

Lately, he had learned from Nora which body parts hurt the most when attacked and remembered the two specific places on his arm.

In addition, he had asked Nora to make him a few custom-made needles. She carried them with her everywhere, euphemistically calling them her form of self-defense.

Cherry looked at Pete and then at Xander. Finally, she pouted and said, “Mom, you and Dad are too biased! Why don’t I have any self-defense skills?”

Nora: “…”

Pete immediately explained, “When Dad gave me the dagger, he told me it was for me to protect you.”

Xander also pursed his lips and said, “When Mom gave me the needles, she also told me it was to protect you.”

With a serious expression, the two said, “Then, you don’t need any self-defense skills. The two of us are your self-defense skills.”

Nora: “…”

Those two kids with sister complexes!

After the man was repelled, Luke, who was closest to him, rushed to subdue him. The three children were also successfully protected.

Nora did not look at the three children. Instead, she looked at Philip and said dominantly, “Let her go.”

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